Coronavirus: More than 23,000 new cases in 24 hours, intensive care admissions on the rise (Illustration) -
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Hospitalizations, including in the intensive care unit, due to coronavirus continued to increase on Friday, figures scrutinized by health authorities and the government, which does not rule out a third confinement.
Public health France announces 2,902 patients in intensive care (+36 compared to Thursday), including 270 entries in these services which welcome the most serious cases, during the last twenty-four hours.
This figure is the highest since December 10.
More than 72,500 deaths since the start of the epidemic
The number of hospitalized patients totaled 25,872 (+173 compared to the previous day), including 1,861 in the last twenty-four hours.
With 323 new deaths in hospital in twenty-four hours, Covid-19 has now caused the death of 72,674 people in France (hospital and nursing home) since the start of the epidemic, according to data from Public Health France.
The positivity rate of those tested was 7% on Friday, against 6.9% on Thursday, the highest since early December.
New containment in sight?
"The hypothesis of containment is more and more likely," said a government source on Friday, citing projections made public by Inserm and the Pasteur Institute which predict an exponential increase in the epidemic because of its variant English, more contagious.
“If we see positive effects of the 6 pm curfew in the days to come, we might say to ourselves that we still have a week or two of leeway.
But that seems unlikely to us that this will be sufficient, ”added the same source.
Thursday evening, on the set of TF1, the Minister of Health Olivier Véran had declared to want to "give a chance" to the curfew.
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